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Episode #447: 'Spacewoman' with Kevin Smokler

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We’re capping off a month at looking at different films directed by women with Hannah Berryman’s documentary, Spacewoman. Kevin Smokler, author of Breaking the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers joins us to talk about this close look at the stellar career of astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot, and later command, a Space Shuttle mission.

What’s Good

Alonso - Calm for naps
Drea - getting a doctor’s appointment
Kevin S. - Memorizing Oscar winners as a sleep aid
Kevin A. - 3 hour Celebrity game

ITIDIC

  • AI-Generated Val Kilmer Will Appear in Movie Kilmer Was to Shoot Before His Passing
  • April Wolfe/Chloe Okuno Project Bad Hand Lands at Searchlight

    • Staff Picks

    Alonso - Late Shift
    Drea - Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
    Kevin S. - Say Amen Somebody
    Kevin A. - A Teacher

    Directors Mentioned in C-Block:

    • Patricia Cardoso
    • Debra Granik
    • Amy Heckerling
    • Anna Boden
    • Rose Troche
    • Donna Deitch
    • Cheryl Dunye
    • Joan Micklin Silver
    • Lizzie Borden
    • Wanuri Kihiyu
    • Melanie Laurent
    • Maggie Gyllenhaal
    • Allison Anders
    • Gillian Armstrong
    • Celine Sciamma
    • Lynn Shelton
    • The Wachowskis
    • Penny Marshall
    • Martha Coolidge
    • Vera Drew
    • Jane Schoenbrun
    • Alice Maio Mackay
    • Mira Nair
    • Věra Chytilová
    • Ida Lupino
    • Dorothy Arzner
    • Alice Guy-Blaché
    • Caitlin Adams
    • Susan Seidelman
    • Nia DaCosta
    • Kathryn Bigelow
    • Julia Hart
    • Dee Rees
    • Catherine Breillat
    • Mary Harron
    • Regina King
    • Dyan Cannon

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